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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980/section-97",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/45",
  "legislation_title": "Water (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/97",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "97",
  "heading": "Continuing offences and penalties.",
  "text": "Where provision is made by or under this Act or any local enactment incorporating any provisions of Schedule 4 for the imposition of a daily penalty in respect of a continuing offence, the court by which a person is convicted may fix a reasonable period from the date of the conviction for compliance by that person with any directions given by the court, and, where the court has fixed such a period, the daily penalty shall not be recoverable in respect of any day before the expiration thereof.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/45/section/97",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:16.376021+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}